HILLY RANGES AND THEIE NEIGHBOURHOOD FROM BAHADUR KHEL, &C. 1 67 



difficult as to be barely practicable for any except foot-passengers. Fig. 

 47 shews the section from Nurree (Nurri) to Turkhakooa (Turkakiia) 

 across the range, two and a half miles — 



1. Rock-salt. 2. Gypseous series. 3. Red clay zone. (4 Wanting.) 5. Tertiary sandstone series. 

 F. Faults. 



In the section the double anticlinal character of the range is again 



apparent in the two parallel elongated exposures of 

 Section. . 



the gypsum on either side of the continuation of 



the tertiary sandstones which form the great synclinal to the west, this 



synclinal being here apparently inverted. Faults occur both at the north 



and south limits of the range, that to the north being 

 Faults. 



a continuation of one previously mentioned as cut- 

 ting off obliquely the extension of the Bahadur Khel anticlinal, and that 

 to the south the great Barak fault. 



The Bahadur Khel anticlinal, however, does not seem to have been 

 entirely cut off, as the curve of its southern side is continuous from Shoh 

 to beyond Nurree. In the northern outcrop of this southern curve and 



.... ,. also in that surrounding" the Turkhakooa and 



Nninnmlitic limestone & 



absent. Sirraikhwa gypsum, the nummulitic limestone may 



be said to be entirely absent for a distance of twenty-four miles, or only 

 represented by a few thin layers of the lower part here and there of no 

 great lateral extent, or sometimes a 3-foot pebbly-looking bed of the lower 

 sandstone, enclosing nummulitic limestone lumps, feebly indicates places 

 where it ought to exist. 



One of these narrow layers of this limestone united by a thin band 

 . , - ,. of blackish shale (such as was noticed at the base 



Lower beds or lime- v 



stone represented. f fa e g roup i n the Zawa Algud), to the violet or 



lavender-clay below is seen to the southward of the salt chowki or 



tower on the hill in which the salt quarries of Nurree (Nurri) are 



situated. 



The gypsum of this locality seems much weathered and disturbed 



by atmospheric action, presenting, as usual, only 

 Gypsum. . . 



unsatisfactory evidence as to its thickness and 



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